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These historic tours offer an unrivalled chance to see and experience for yourself merry olde Tudor Fantastic escorted historical tours of Tudor England.

Small groups are given a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience the Tudor period with the charismatic Steve Murphy. Visit palaces, castles and places not usually seen on the tourist trail to relive the intriguing lives of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and many more. Stay in charming and historical hotels and even eat a Tudor banquet! Range of tours available or we can design a tour just for you.

08/12/2024

The sam Wanamaker theatre last night to see alls well that ends well our 25th Shakespeare’s play at the globe. It was a very windy and rainy night outside but candle lit on the inside

07/12/2024

Had a delightful event at Peterborough cathedral today. The snowman on a big screen and a live orchestra and a couple of young choristers .
I even got to meet the snowman afterwards before he melted. The place was packed with families kids and grandparents

15/07/2024

Day 9 Sudeley castle Richard III owned it got 15 years as Duke of Gloucestershire and king. It is here that we find Eleanor Botteler who married Edward VI in secret and this was the reason that Richard declared the marriage of Edward and Cecily Neville illegal this declaring the two princes as illegitimate. Neal the peacock lives!

15/07/2024

Day 8 the battle of Tewkesbury re enactment. The whole town takes part with nearly all the shops in the town proudly displaying a banner of one of the men at the battle.
The abbey still does not allow weapons inside. 2000 enacyors staged the battle with a little showmanship from Margaret of Anjou. There was gunfire, mortal combat, archery volleys, all the elements of the real thing. We walked around the encampments talking to the protagonists before the fight. All in all a terrific medieval experience.

15/07/2024

Day 7 and we are at Ludlow in the Welsh marches. The judicial capital of the marches where prince Arthur was sent to learn kingship but sadly he died aged 15. Before that Cecily Neville was here . She was left alone with her two youngest sons when her husband father and eldest son left her to the mercy if king Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou. We had a wonderful walking tour if the town and castle

12/07/2024

On to Warwick castle where Edward IV was held prisoner and where Anne Neville was born. We saw a spectacular joust the Wars of the Roses in 40 minutes, great kill and showmanship by the knights and m
Margaret of Anjou

12/07/2024

Day 6 of our journey we see kenilworth castle. The history of England in one place
It was here that Henry XI and margeret of Anjou rested whilst Henry XI had a prolonged catatonic episode

Henry V was here when he received and insulting gift of tennis balls from the French prince In march 1415
The backfired on him when in October of 1415 HenryvV win a decisive victory at the battle of Agincourt

12/07/2024

On to Bosworth battle field where the Plantagenet dynasty ended and the Tudor age began

12/07/2024

Day 4 Richard IIi day in Leicester where his body was found in a car park after 440 years. The visitor centre is brilliant with details of the battle and the forensic detail of how he was found and the identicatio of the remains.

09/07/2024

Day 4
Today was Berkhamsted castle where Cecily Neville lived out the last 26 years of her life
Grafton Regis where Elizabeth Woodville was borne and secretly married Edward IV
Finally Fortheringhay where Richard III was borne and where MarybQueen of Scot’s was executed. It’s not much to look at now but in the 1550’s it was a significant place to be. The pulpit in the church was ad built for Edward VI . The church is where Cecily Neville is laid to rest.

09/07/2024

Day 3 St Albans First battle 1455 second battle 1461. There’s not much left of the town from 1455 but we did get to hear the actual town clock tower bell that rung to announce the Yorkist were attacking the town on that fateful morning of 22 May 1455 at the first battle. A real moment of history.

09/07/2024

Day 2 the Tower of London is steeped in the nation’s history for nearly a thousand years. This is where the bones of two young boys were found at the bottom of a staircase in 1674 are they the bones of the two princes who disappeared in 1483? We may never know.
Henry VI was found dead in the little chapel of the medieval palace. He died the very same day that Margaret of Anjou was paraded into London as captive in May 1471 after the Lancastrian defeat at the battle of Tewkesbury

09/07/2024

Day 2 of Wars of the Roses tour
Eltham palace. The great hall which still stands today was built by Edward IV
In 1479. It was the second largest space in medieval England only the great hall of Westminster was bigger. We were treated to to live music , the acoustics are superb, it sent us back over 500 years when kings lived here

09/07/2024

Day one ends with seeing Shakespeare’s Richard III a huge piece of forward planning on my part ( but it could be just a fluke

09/07/2024

Day one at the National portrait Galley to see a magnificent new exhibition of the six wives of Henry VIII. I k ow not wars of the roses but we are too close up miss this. Many extra little items are on display on loan from other collections

09/07/2024

Day 1 of our 10 day Wars of the Roses tour
Westminster Abbey , the nation’s parish church. Here lies many of our sovereigns and princes. In clouding the bones of two young boys aged between 8 and 12 . Are these the bones of the two princes that disappeared in 1483?

05/07/2024

Starting out 10 day Wars of the roses tour tomorrow and met this guide right my the great hall of the bishop of Winchester’s Palace in Southwark .

30/06/2024

A new exhibition at the National portrait gallery. The Six Lives of Henry VIII is a superb exhibition with some portraits I have not seen before it’s well with a look if you can . There are also costumes from Six the musical, BBC series of Henry VIII from the 1970’s Well done NPG

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2 Old Orchard Place
Hailsham
BN273

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